Word: beef
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...restaurants and the Union reported a record breaking consumption of salads, feed drinks and other hot weather delicacies. Hot roast beef and soup were on the menu but the waiters declared that hardly anyone ordered them. The chief complaint of the waiters was that they were kept too busy filling the glasses of ice water which were emptied almost as fast as they were filled...
...value of art lies in the universality of appeal, then the much-tormented Jiggs of the "funny pictures" must be reckoned among the significant figures of American art, for a poll taken among restaurant patrons shows that corned beef and cabbage constitutes the favorite dish. Those who have given up through a growing fastidiousness this succulent indulgence need no longer conceal their weakness or camouflage it by a French menu. Democracy has justified them, and from henceforth the great majority, washed or unwashed, will never be abashed by snobbish ecstasies over caviar or pulcinelli. The people have voted and cabbage...
...once with great and spontaneous enthusiasm to the culinary preferences of their adopted land. So long as the democratic spirit of the cafeteria reduces all classes to the lowly and patient condition of waiters upon the unhurried gods of the kitchen, so long as the savor of corned beef and cabbage waters the mouths of the multitude, so long the institutions and faiths of America will go on, uninjured by the inroads of French, Italian, or Russian menus or even by the jargonized Americanese of the aspiring Greek...
...Beef, noise, the Church, vulgarity and beer...
...moved, even ten months later (in March), to elaborate a special supplement in celebration of Texas-her history, her heroes, her landmarks, her better buildings, her institutions and, of course (for there is much British capital in Texas and more to come), her rich enterprises in cotton, oil, beef. Had royalty been expected in town, Houston could have bibbed and tuckered herself no more gaudily than she did last week. The streets were fringed with clouds of bunting by day and streams of brilliant bulbs by night. Hotel lobbies babbled greeting from a thousand bulletin boards, ten thousand posters...